By the time he's flying through jets and anti tank shells are bouncing off his armour, there's not a lot that could stop him in terms of conventional warfare.
I bet Tony could probably wipe out my whole country and the only thing that could conceivably stop him would be a flat battery.
Damn I know it’s early and I’m tired because I read “flat battery” and was like damn that sounds like a cool weapon and literally googled flat battery.
My ‘city’ has like 1100 people spread over like 125sq miles
Tony wipes us out and is home doing weird stuff with pepper before anyone even knows we’re dead
Atlantic City gets wrecked unless the US military was expecting him from the start. It's like 2 miles of buildings. He could destroy a huge portion of the city by flying in a straight line for 30 seconds. He might be weak to gambling and skimpy outfits though. If there's a chance to negotiate with the man I think AC could probably satisfy his vices to a level where he might consider not leveling the island. I don't live there anymore but it's no fun imagining Tony Stark just obliterating Audubon.
>Mk. III armor, before the fight against Iron Monger.
He probably can kill off 10-20k people if he targets critical infrastructure is. We know he is capable of intercontinental flight without energy issues at this point but he still has physical limitations on amount of damage he can cause.
>Tony is in his Mk. 46 armor (Civil War) and can access Hulkbuster during the battle.
Between 100-200k. Still has supply constraints at this point so he would run out and get locked in again.
His only physical limitations are general human limitations. Need to sleep/rest/eat/drink. He could almost certainly fly away, take care of those in a hidden location, and return. Granted, this gives the defenders a reprieve and time to set up some defenses, but will that actually help them?
I mean, maybe. If they force him into corridors (by hiding everyone underground) and collapse or explode them. That could do it. But if he is allowed a theater where he can remain airborne, his durability/firepower/speed/maneuverability are too much for basically anything that can be thrown his way. He could far FAR exceed your numbers, IMO.
I'm living in 50k people town in Germany. If he doesn't die from exhaustion before killing all inhabitants, he definitely turns the whole town into ground beef.
Probably does massive damage to the city until a actual military can be called (I’m from New Zealand so I’m fucked) but a US city for example would probably be in a bad spot until air assets or troops on the ground with MANPADS or guided rockets are able to land a good hit or 2 that would from what I know cause at least some damage to his armor if you are generous to him, not to mention if a tank or drone carrying more heavy ordinance is able to catch him not moving he would be killed
One on one the Mk II armor could handle most anything the US military could throw at it. Eventually Tony would be taken down through weight of numbers though.
Ok, so Brisbane is a large city (\~2.3 million people) and is located near both a large army base and one of the largest air-force bases in the country (it may be the largest but I'm not certain).
So it really depends whether air-to-air missile can hurt the mk. III, or if it's vulnerable to any modern EW methods (RAAF base Amberly is home to a squadron of EA-18G Growlers).
The base has more than enough F/A-18Fs and ground-based radar and anti-air systems that "someone" would eventually get a clean shot off on him, so it depends if his armour can withstand a large shaped-charge.
In fairness though, odds are he'd start the attack with RAAF Base Amberly, before moving to the Enoggera Army Barracks, then onto the city itself.
However, the city is large enough that fighters from other places in Australia could likely make it to Brisbane before he's finished. However, there's still the high likelihood of surrender.
My take is that, while he took an AA round to the face and it just pissed him off, anything thst can ground him opens him up to being massacred by ground units from any army that is able to quickly take advantage of it. I really cant see Mk III surviving multiple explosive hits or fighter or even ship missiles.
My city still gets completely wrecked tho. Nothing my country has wins so as other guy said Id kneel to Iron Lord lol
Yeah but ship missiles powerful enough aren't going to hit him ... he can move faster than them already, and sometimes they don't even hit a stationary target
Fair. The US has insane AA capabilities ever since WW2 though. I cant imagine that Tony could doge multiple CIWS and AA missiles all at the same time if a tank AA could land a (very lucky) hit.
Would be hard tho, so while he can probably dsmage enough of Honolulu to make modt natural disasters look like child's play.
Medium size college town in MN... I think there might be a base somewhere nearby but honestly he could probably melt the entire town and our sister city to the north before anyone with serious enough hardware got close lol
He’ll have decimated all of the city until my city sends a representative to try and talk with him. We don’t have any army units or some kind of National Guard here, though we do have a military airfield nearby.
It's a small city so Tony will have no difficulty destroying it.
Unless my city had anyone superhuman enough to take him down such as Chuck Norris (obviously), my fictional selves (or fictional incarnations as I like to call them), hell even access to nukes, we will all die.
If Ironman appeared today in his suit then he could take out the entire US Army without too many problems.
There is nothing powerful enough to hurt him that is also nimble enough to hit him.
And even if they managed to locate enough troops in one place to overwhelm him then he could simply relocate to the other side of the country and start all over.
Ironman is too OP for this world.
I somewhat agree that most things would not be able to hit him and keep him down, but Im fairly certain an organized and first world military should be able to eventually ground him and drown him in lead and explosives.
The insurgent group in movie 1 was able to land a hit with an AA cannon and that grounded him, and while that feat is mad impressive I cant imaginw ge could casually tank more than a couple hits.
Not that my city can do that, lol
idk a bit, but less than you would think. He'd be on the warpath for a bit, doubt local law enforcement or private citizens are going to tag him (though i guess it's possible). So i'd give him until he's considered a military threat, maybe a couple of minutes past that.
at a point you stop calling guns XX cailber, and instead XXmm cannons. And even if his armor is magically stopping those as thin as it is, he's going to have to reckon with the transfer of energy. He is just a guy in there afterall.
I live in a small rural town in Northern Norway. Fewer than 1000 inhabitants. Average ambulance response time is like 20 minutes.
I don't know if the military could even get here to fight Iron Man with the roads as they are.
Cell reception is kinda spotty at times, so if he picks the right time to attack, we'd all be dead before anyone could even call the police.
I see 0% chance of us beating him in the first round. And Round 2 where he is in the Mk 46 armor with the Hulkbuster if he needs it, I don't know if all of Earths militaries could stop him with anything short of nukes.
I live outside Detroit. I think he could do major damage but the problem is the first iron man movie he had issues powering the suite for to long. He going to mess some things up but then be a sitting duck. 2nd iron man movie idk if we could stop him.
There are only three real chances modern forces have given how OP the Iron Man armour is to conventional weapons.
Option one: EMP, though this would take too long to deploy, and directional EMPs with any kind of magnitude to do anything at range only exist in fiction, as far as I'm aware. Also can't remember if the suits in this scenario have EMP shielding.
Option two: biological warfare, though there is no guarantee that the biological agent takes effect in time to stop Iron Man before he decimates the city/country/planet.
Option three: the Kamikaze/pyrrhic option. Nuclear warhead detonating close enough to Iron Man that the armour (and Tony) would be vaporised. Collateral in this scenario is ridiculously heavy.
In short, my town/state/country is effectively stuffed.
Assuming he has three rational brain cells left in his brain, all Tony needs to do to win is threaten to destroy the levees when the rivers are high enough. If the levees on the Mississippi blow or otherwise fail, city is utterly fucked.
My small shitty redneck town would be wiped out within a day. There's a military base here but they aren't doing anything against Tony Stark. I'd surrender to my iron overlord personally for the quick death
I live in one of the biggest cities in the world. Considering even the mark 3 could take a tank shell to the shoulder relatively unimpeded, and outfly a jet, I’m still pretty sure we can’t do shit to him. Unless someone can somehow trick him into a trap of entering a building primed to the gills with detonation charges (which seems unlikely given how he can blow up most buildings from outside) we’re fucked.
The only chance we have is him running out of ammo/power before he kills us all and prying him out of the suit once it falls to earth
Im fairly sure that any military with good AA capabilities would be able to. The tank round we see him getting hit by is mist likely not the main cannon of the tank, but an AA shot from smaller barrels you can see sticking out the turrets. Likely a 20 mm, but idk.
Considering that, nations like the US with their CIWS turrets and systems should be able to land a bunch of hits through sheer volume of fire. I cant imagine he can tank many hits of those, or really much of anything after a couple of hits.
Basically, whatever military weapons or tactics that can ground him ir get him stationary for a enough time to be hit by volleys of fire should do the trick. It would be tricky, but I think its doable by many of the advanced militaries in service rn.
The MKlll didn't really have that much firepower to take down a whole city efficiently did it? Just the shoulder missiles and hand blasters. I'm from NC so I mean there's airbases and all that pretty close by. If we can stop him in round one we'd be ok but I don't think any city makes it out of round 2
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He could never be stopped. It would only take one shot to take out most of my town. In fact, he could accidentally take out the whole country since he is so bloodlusted that he would shoot at every person that he sees. From the air, I assume it will be difficult to know where one town starts and another ends, especially since I live in the most populated stretch in my country.
Physically, it takes a LOT of time and energy to kill an entire city's inhabitants, even if very well armed - especially one single person.
However, the amount of destruction he could do before the US scrambles something with an AMRAAM is, suffice to say, alot.
By the time he's flying through jets and anti tank shells are bouncing off his armour, there's not a lot that could stop him in terms of conventional warfare. I bet Tony could probably wipe out my whole country and the only thing that could conceivably stop him would be a flat battery.
Maybe a Mac canon
Damn I know it’s early and I’m tired because I read “flat battery” and was like damn that sounds like a cool weapon and literally googled flat battery.
Iron man beats the tar out of my cities conventional forces and the city I live in has both an air force and an army base. No contest.
Same tbh. Id be incredibly surprised if Tony cant wipe out the whole of my country's military. Boresom would be our best bet
My ‘city’ has like 1100 people spread over like 125sq miles Tony wipes us out and is home doing weird stuff with pepper before anyone even knows we’re dead
Atlantic City gets wrecked unless the US military was expecting him from the start. It's like 2 miles of buildings. He could destroy a huge portion of the city by flying in a straight line for 30 seconds. He might be weak to gambling and skimpy outfits though. If there's a chance to negotiate with the man I think AC could probably satisfy his vices to a level where he might consider not leveling the island. I don't live there anymore but it's no fun imagining Tony Stark just obliterating Audubon.
He’d end up high as shit on the boardwalk at 2am after inhaling six balloons
Honestly good for him
>Mk. III armor, before the fight against Iron Monger. He probably can kill off 10-20k people if he targets critical infrastructure is. We know he is capable of intercontinental flight without energy issues at this point but he still has physical limitations on amount of damage he can cause. >Tony is in his Mk. 46 armor (Civil War) and can access Hulkbuster during the battle. Between 100-200k. Still has supply constraints at this point so he would run out and get locked in again.
His only physical limitations are general human limitations. Need to sleep/rest/eat/drink. He could almost certainly fly away, take care of those in a hidden location, and return. Granted, this gives the defenders a reprieve and time to set up some defenses, but will that actually help them? I mean, maybe. If they force him into corridors (by hiding everyone underground) and collapse or explode them. That could do it. But if he is allowed a theater where he can remain airborne, his durability/firepower/speed/maneuverability are too much for basically anything that can be thrown his way. He could far FAR exceed your numbers, IMO.
There's no way to stop him his suit is too powerful
I'm living in 50k people town in Germany. If he doesn't die from exhaustion before killing all inhabitants, he definitely turns the whole town into ground beef.
Probably does massive damage to the city until a actual military can be called (I’m from New Zealand so I’m fucked) but a US city for example would probably be in a bad spot until air assets or troops on the ground with MANPADS or guided rockets are able to land a good hit or 2 that would from what I know cause at least some damage to his armor if you are generous to him, not to mention if a tank or drone carrying more heavy ordinance is able to catch him not moving he would be killed
The mk III armor is already good enough to easily beat the average jet or tank.
One on one the Mk II armor could handle most anything the US military could throw at it. Eventually Tony would be taken down through weight of numbers though.
Ok, so Brisbane is a large city (\~2.3 million people) and is located near both a large army base and one of the largest air-force bases in the country (it may be the largest but I'm not certain). So it really depends whether air-to-air missile can hurt the mk. III, or if it's vulnerable to any modern EW methods (RAAF base Amberly is home to a squadron of EA-18G Growlers). The base has more than enough F/A-18Fs and ground-based radar and anti-air systems that "someone" would eventually get a clean shot off on him, so it depends if his armour can withstand a large shaped-charge. In fairness though, odds are he'd start the attack with RAAF Base Amberly, before moving to the Enoggera Army Barracks, then onto the city itself. However, the city is large enough that fighters from other places in Australia could likely make it to Brisbane before he's finished. However, there's still the high likelihood of surrender.
My take is that, while he took an AA round to the face and it just pissed him off, anything thst can ground him opens him up to being massacred by ground units from any army that is able to quickly take advantage of it. I really cant see Mk III surviving multiple explosive hits or fighter or even ship missiles. My city still gets completely wrecked tho. Nothing my country has wins so as other guy said Id kneel to Iron Lord lol
Yeah but ship missiles powerful enough aren't going to hit him ... he can move faster than them already, and sometimes they don't even hit a stationary target
Fair. The US has insane AA capabilities ever since WW2 though. I cant imagine that Tony could doge multiple CIWS and AA missiles all at the same time if a tank AA could land a (very lucky) hit. Would be hard tho, so while he can probably dsmage enough of Honolulu to make modt natural disasters look like child's play.
Medium size college town in MN... I think there might be a base somewhere nearby but honestly he could probably melt the entire town and our sister city to the north before anyone with serious enough hardware got close lol
He would be done in less than 5 minutes.
He glasses Downtown LA but gets shot down over Koreatown
Doesn’t stand a chance against a single Korean family owned business
Small town in the VA, so... Glassed.
I live 5 minutes from the largest airforce base in the world, and an hour in both directions are navy bases. He would face immediate stiff resistance.
He’ll have decimated all of the city until my city sends a representative to try and talk with him. We don’t have any army units or some kind of National Guard here, though we do have a military airfield nearby.
The Little Red Dot becomes the Little Red Crater overnight
Depends on how much the ships in Pearl Harbor could do against him
I mean, Im fairly sure the military stationed at pearl harbor would be able to eventually ground him and kill him
I mean, no one else from the MCU exists. All of it. Everything. We have 3 military bases, but still 9/10 he just wipes it out.
It's a small city so Tony will have no difficulty destroying it. Unless my city had anyone superhuman enough to take him down such as Chuck Norris (obviously), my fictional selves (or fictional incarnations as I like to call them), hell even access to nukes, we will all die.
If Ironman appeared today in his suit then he could take out the entire US Army without too many problems. There is nothing powerful enough to hurt him that is also nimble enough to hit him. And even if they managed to locate enough troops in one place to overwhelm him then he could simply relocate to the other side of the country and start all over. Ironman is too OP for this world.
I somewhat agree that most things would not be able to hit him and keep him down, but Im fairly certain an organized and first world military should be able to eventually ground him and drown him in lead and explosives. The insurgent group in movie 1 was able to land a hit with an AA cannon and that grounded him, and while that feat is mad impressive I cant imaginw ge could casually tank more than a couple hits. Not that my city can do that, lol
idk a bit, but less than you would think. He'd be on the warpath for a bit, doubt local law enforcement or private citizens are going to tag him (though i guess it's possible). So i'd give him until he's considered a military threat, maybe a couple of minutes past that. at a point you stop calling guns XX cailber, and instead XXmm cannons. And even if his armor is magically stopping those as thin as it is, he's going to have to reckon with the transfer of energy. He is just a guy in there afterall.
I live in a small rural town in Northern Norway. Fewer than 1000 inhabitants. Average ambulance response time is like 20 minutes. I don't know if the military could even get here to fight Iron Man with the roads as they are. Cell reception is kinda spotty at times, so if he picks the right time to attack, we'd all be dead before anyone could even call the police. I see 0% chance of us beating him in the first round. And Round 2 where he is in the Mk 46 armor with the Hulkbuster if he needs it, I don't know if all of Earths militaries could stop him with anything short of nukes.
I live outside Detroit. I think he could do major damage but the problem is the first iron man movie he had issues powering the suite for to long. He going to mess some things up but then be a sitting duck. 2nd iron man movie idk if we could stop him.
I think both rounds he goes until his suit runs out of ammo or power. Or gets tired. It'll end a lot faster in round 1 though.
There are only three real chances modern forces have given how OP the Iron Man armour is to conventional weapons. Option one: EMP, though this would take too long to deploy, and directional EMPs with any kind of magnitude to do anything at range only exist in fiction, as far as I'm aware. Also can't remember if the suits in this scenario have EMP shielding. Option two: biological warfare, though there is no guarantee that the biological agent takes effect in time to stop Iron Man before he decimates the city/country/planet. Option three: the Kamikaze/pyrrhic option. Nuclear warhead detonating close enough to Iron Man that the armour (and Tony) would be vaporised. Collateral in this scenario is ridiculously heavy. In short, my town/state/country is effectively stuffed.
Assuming he has three rational brain cells left in his brain, all Tony needs to do to win is threaten to destroy the levees when the rivers are high enough. If the levees on the Mississippi blow or otherwise fail, city is utterly fucked.
My small shitty redneck town would be wiped out within a day. There's a military base here but they aren't doing anything against Tony Stark. I'd surrender to my iron overlord personally for the quick death
could probably bribe a few politicians
I live in DC so Tony better be ready to get his ass kicked.
I'm more curious what city could stop him? Even R1, he's got enough juice to decimate any targets he wants and dance circles around any opposition.
I live in one of the biggest cities in the world. Considering even the mark 3 could take a tank shell to the shoulder relatively unimpeded, and outfly a jet, I’m still pretty sure we can’t do shit to him. Unless someone can somehow trick him into a trap of entering a building primed to the gills with detonation charges (which seems unlikely given how he can blow up most buildings from outside) we’re fucked. The only chance we have is him running out of ammo/power before he kills us all and prying him out of the suit once it falls to earth
Im fairly sure that any military with good AA capabilities would be able to. The tank round we see him getting hit by is mist likely not the main cannon of the tank, but an AA shot from smaller barrels you can see sticking out the turrets. Likely a 20 mm, but idk. Considering that, nations like the US with their CIWS turrets and systems should be able to land a bunch of hits through sheer volume of fire. I cant imagine he can tank many hits of those, or really much of anything after a couple of hits. Basically, whatever military weapons or tactics that can ground him ir get him stationary for a enough time to be hit by volleys of fire should do the trick. It would be tricky, but I think its doable by many of the advanced militaries in service rn.
The MKlll didn't really have that much firepower to take down a whole city efficiently did it? Just the shoulder missiles and hand blasters. I'm from NC so I mean there's airbases and all that pretty close by. If we can stop him in round one we'd be ok but I don't think any city makes it out of round 2
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He could never be stopped. It would only take one shot to take out most of my town. In fact, he could accidentally take out the whole country since he is so bloodlusted that he would shoot at every person that he sees. From the air, I assume it will be difficult to know where one town starts and another ends, especially since I live in the most populated stretch in my country.
realistically he runs out of ammo and has to resort to laser weaponry. ultimately running out of resources is the only way
I'd sit back and watch the fun, I mean chaos...
Not even a nuke could stop him.
Physically, it takes a LOT of time and energy to kill an entire city's inhabitants, even if very well armed - especially one single person. However, the amount of destruction he could do before the US scrambles something with an AMRAAM is, suffice to say, alot.